Parishioners & Rev. Frances H. Schiller - Concord Hill, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 38.932 W 091° 08.465
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Large monument in the NEW St. Ignatius Cemetery
Waymark Code: WMT00F
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2016
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County of memorial: Warren County
Location of memorial: Mill St., St. Ignatius Cemetery, Concord Hill
Date erected: 1957
Erected by: Vincent Meyer
Text on monument:
Erected by
VINCENT
MEYER
In memory of
Our Beloved Parishoners
and
In Honor of Our Pastor
Rev. Francis H. Schiller
---- 1957 ----
Rev. Schiller, born in St. Louis in 1880, his prep schooling was at St. Vincent's School, St. Louis.
He was a student as Sacred Heart College, Prairie du Chen, WI for 3 years and finished at St. Mary's Institute, Dayton, Ohio.
Between his prep school days and college he was held out of school to learn about real life, and worked at the Post-Dispatch newspaper, a bicycle factory and a wholesale drug company.
After St, Mary's he took religious studies at Kenrick Seminary.
He was ordained into the priesthood by Archbishop Glennon, June 11, 1907.His fist assignment was Sacred Heart Church in University City, MO and his last assignment was St. Ignatius of Loyola in Concord Hill, MO.
He also served as pastor at Assumption, in New Haven, MO.
[my words and writing, some information came from the book St. Louis, The Fourth City, 1764-1909; volume 3, By Walter Barlow Stevens